Whenever I need to download a couple of - legit - torrents for a review, I head over to the Pirate Bay website to find movie trailers that I can download to […]
In the past I experienced it several times that several versions of the Google Chrome browser would not update automatically anymore. I could not really figure out back then was was causing […]
Google Chrome like any other web browser out there keeps a record of the website and services a user has visited in the past. The main idea behind the web history is […]
Google some time ago started to test and later on implement encrypted search on its search engine for all users signed in to a Google account. The majority of users may not […]
One of the things that I really do not like in Firefox is that Mozilla still did not find a way to block the automatic installation of extensions in the browser. Many […]
Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome, that's it what the Windows browser landscape currently consists of. There are a couple of other browsers, like Seamonkey, SRWare Iron or Maxthon, but even if […]
Proxtube is a highly popular extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that can bypass country related restrictions on YouTube. YouTube can block videos in some countries, for instance due to insufficient publication […]
Are you using apps in the Google Chrome web browser or Chromium? If you are new to the browser you may need some background information on the difference between apps and extensions. […]
Google Chrome users who want to protect their web browser from unauthorized external extension installation did not have a lot of options in this regard until recently. An update to the Extensions […]
An option to enable Do Not Track headers landed in today's Chromium release which web users can make use of to notify servers, websites and scripts that they do not want to […]
All modern web browsers are considerably fast when it comes to rendering web pages and executing JavaScript code. You usually find Google Chrome at the very top of results and the other […]
We have just confirmed that Google's Chrome browser is not the smallest cat in the alley when it comes to memory usage. While memory usage is not the only parameter that is […]
On Google Chrome Canary, I have lately been getting the Extensions, apps, and user scripts cannot be installed from this web site error message when I was trying to install a userscript […]
A few days ago I mentioned that Google was about to release the first Metro version of the Chrome browser. As you all know, Windows 8 will ship with two user interaces, […]
The web browser landscape has changed considerably in recent years. Especially the introduction of the Google browser has shuffled around the landscape quite a bit. On today's Internet, there are five major […]
I rarely use superlatives here on Ghacks, but this smooth scrolling extension for Firefox has fully convinced me that there is nothing better on the market right now. Yet Another Smooth Scrolling […]
Google Web History is an automatically turned on service for Google account users who use Google search while being logged into that account. According to Google, it contains information about the searches […]
Click to play functionality has landed in nightly builds of the Firefox web browser. We have talked about that before, and also looked at other web browsers who were offering that feature. […]
If you are monitoring your network traffic closely you may have noticed that the Google Chrome web browser and its Open Source counterpart Chromium are both trying to connect to three random […]
When you compare the Chrome Web Store to the Mozilla Add-ons Repository, you will notice that the former offers little sorting and customization options. Up until now you saw a list of […]
Google has released the next beta version of the Chrome browser, a day after releasing Google Chrome 17 Stable. Chrome 18 Beta supports GPU accelerated 2D Canvas and 3D contents on older […]
Internet users are accustomed to ads on Internet pages. One of the most prominent advertisement services used these days is Google Adsense which is available for websites, searches on websites and for […]
When it comes to add-ons, the NoScript add-on for the Firefox web browser is my favorite one. It blocks script from running on domains until I allow them to run. NoScript offers […]
Prerendering in the best case speeds up specific processes. When it comes to web browsers the technology is used to pre-load and render websites to display them faster for the user. This […]
Ghacks readers know that the chrome://flags page leads to a list of experimental features in the Chrome browser. These features are not yet ready for prime time. Adventurous Chrome users can enable […]
Samsung's new Series 5 Chromebook is one of the very first devices to market running Google's own Chrome OS, a Linux variant cloud-based operating system that is essentially just a web browser […]
SRWare Iron is a web browser that is based on the Open Source Chromium web browser. It offers the same fast performance and rendering abilities as the Chrome browser, but without the […]
Prerendering is a technology that can speed up web browsing by loading web pages in advance. The advantage of prerendering is an almost instant page loading time for prerendered pages. There are […]
We may still be at least a year away from Windows 8's big debut in 2012, but the OS arena is heating up like never before, and new competitors are stepping up […]
LessChrome HD for Firefox is an add-on that hides part of the Chrome user interface in the browser. The add-on hides the urlbar in the browser so that only the tabbar and […]
I like my web browser UI as compact as possible. To achieve that I have no problem of getting rid of some of the lesser used interface elements. Basic examples are compacting […]
So the Chromebook has finally been announced, and first models will ship on June 15 in select countries (US and several European countries). Both Acer and Samsung have revealed some of the […]
Google has just released an update for the stable branch of Google Chrome that brings the version of the web browser to 11.0.696.68. The update, which is available for Microsoft Windows, Apple […]
While I'm still busy changing my passwords, I'm noticing several browser related news popping up in my RSS feed reader. So what's going on today? Several websites report that the first beta […]
If you are a user of a Linux distribution that takes advantage of Launchpad's Personal Package Archive, then you know how easy that tool can be for adding those hard to find […]
Four different builds, or channels if you use Google's terminology, of the Google Chrome browser are currently available, five if you add the Open Source browser Chromium to the list. Google Chrome […]
I have to admit, over the years I haven't given openSUSE enough love or credit for being the outstanding Linux distribution is it. With that said, I wanted to give some attention […]
PC gamers know that they need to update their graphics card drivers frequently to improve performance, compatibility and stability. Not everyone is a gamer though and there are users who have never […]
Yesterday's update of the Google Chrome Beta browser brought several exciting additions to the Internet browser that users of the dev and canary builds enjoyed for some time. The beta channel version […]
With my on-going search for making my life ever-easier, I have turned to using smaller applications to keep my readers and fans informed. This can get to be an overwhelming problem when […]
